Octavia Butler Quote

He's a fair man.
I looked at him, startled.
I said fair, he repeated. Not likable.
I kept quiet. His father wasn't the monster he could have been with the power he held over his slaves. He wasn't a monster at all. Just an ordinary man who sometimes did the monstrous things his society said were legal and proper.

Chapter 4, The Fight section 6 (p. 134) - Kindred (1979)